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The Auction:
This
auction is for one 1058 Bureau precancel coil
pair FVF and MNH. It is the 4c Abraham
Lincoln coil with WASHINGTON D. C. city type 71 overprint PSS
1058-71 (745). The 1958
rotary press stamps are what specialists identify
as large holes dry printing* and perf.
10 vert.
Completing the
4¢ precancel Bureau city type coil set is
difficult in MNH pairs.
There are 83 different total city overprints!
*In
2015 Scott Catalogue renumbered certain
Liberty Issue stamps. This Scott number
remains the same.
The 4c precancel
paid Book and Library Rates and later Third-Class
Single-Piece Rate into the 1960s.
Mint never
hinged Bureau of
Engraving and Printing (BEP) precancels are uncommon when compared
to used. There is renewed interest in mint
never hinged precanceled USA material from
this era.
Liberty
Issue and earlier precancels are
not priced in Scott. According to Scott
Catalogue precancels are listed only if
the precanceled stamp is different from the
nonprecanceled version, or if the stamp only
exists precanceled.
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Read
to learn more about this scarce variety, which
was the second
of the 4c Lincoln precancel types.
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Dry print
precancel coils were first printed on the
new Huck
Press in 1958.
Earlier wet printings had been on the old Stickney
Press,
which was being replaced.
There was
no coiling and perforating equipment
that could accommodate the width of the new paper used
for the new Huck issues. Early dry
printings like this were briefly sent
back to the old Stickney equipment to be
finished and therefore have large (Stickney)
holes. This momentary overlap in
technology caused the short term transition variety we have here.
Eventually the BEP was able to print and
perforate the coils on new Huck equipment
creating dry prints with new smaller (Huck)
holes.
The minimum print order
from the BEP for a precancelled city coil was 250,000
stamps so quantities were initially available to permit
use holders. There was
a problem though.
At the time of this
printing, it was illegal for collectors to purchase
precancels without a precancel user's permit. Few
dealers or collectors could meet this requirement so the
precancels for collectors were often devalued by soaking them in water
to remove the gum. MNH Full gummed pairs from this era are much harder
to find than no gum or used counterparts.
1058v 1058s 1058pc
four-cent 4-cents $0.04 .04 4¢ 4c
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logos in the images are added
digitally and are not printed on the
actual stamps. The black background
display mount
is not included. For
pane singles the straight edge position
may vary. For blocks/strips the position
order will always be exactly as pictured.
#2283
